Photo by Michael Hintringer

Emily Jayne May Myatt (they/them) is a contemporary visual artist currently based in Kelowna, BC on unceded Syilx territory. Their work centers around fiction and non-fictional testimonies and texts, human and technological evolution,  speculation, and the figure in art history. 

They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus; majoring in visual arts and minoring in art history and visual culture. Recent solo exhibitions include Under the Red Tent at the Kelowna Community Theatre (2024),  Cowfolk at the Art Council of the Central Okanagan Community Gallery (2022) and Awkward at the Rotary Centre for the Arts Galleria (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Emergence at the Vernon Public Art Gallery (2023), Forty Feet Forward at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus (2023), and Recent Work at Kettle River Brewery (2020).